Sara Paretsky Quotes

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

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• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• I enjoy roles that are quite physical.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Enjoy
  • Roles
  • Physical

• I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Time
  • Down

• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Good
  • Think
  • Human

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Want
  • Door

• The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Trying
  • Earth
  • Hand

• After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Jesus

• If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God

• Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • America
  • Poor

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one's silk, one's cotton. They all are slightly different, so that's my perspective.

  

  Erin Wasson
  • Perspective
  • Jeans
  • Buttons

• Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
  • Government
  • Religious
  • Statistics

• I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

  

  Sara Paretsky
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